Meet You at The Green? (CAPP) open call – deadline extended December 9, 2016

Create, Callan Workhouse and Trasna Productions

as part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme announce

Meet You at The Green?

Open Call for Artist/Designer/Architect Research Residency

SPRING 2017

Create’s Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) in partnership with Callan Workhouse Union and Trasna Productions are pleased to announce an International Residency Programme, Meet You at The Green?

Location: Callan, Co.Kilkenny, Ireland.

Closing date (extended): December 9, 2016

The residency is part of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP) project, which is funded by Creative Europe. CAPP’s Residency Programme seeks to explore new models of participation and cooperation and to encourage exchange of artist’s methodologies and practice in context. The overall goal of CAPP is to improve and open up opportunities for artists who are working collaboratively across Europe, by enhancing mobility and exchange whilst at the same time engaging new publics and audiences for collaborative practices.

Call Out

Meet You at The Green? Research Residency is a two month residency to take place between February and May 2017 at Callan Workhouse Union (CWU). We‘re seeking an artist/designer/architect who wishes to explore the possibilities of an engaged/ collaborative practice within the context of the Meet You at the Green? project, and the rich rural arts ecology of the town of Callan and surrounding region. The residency will support research and shared dialogue with curatorial support from the CWU team. As the residency develops CWU will make introductions and link the artist to various rural community groups and development organisations, local government agencies, planning authority, arts organisations and additional places and groups of interest.

Meet You at The Green? is a year-long project focusing on participatory spatial practice and asks the question, ‘how do we inhabit our small towns?’. Exploring our common landscape and built environment, the project will artistically examine the resources available for young people, older people and intergenerational groups to come together in public spaces in a number of rural towns in the South East region of Ireland. The project will explore participatory spatial strategies through performance, movement and sound, in conjunction with an ambitious design and build project. The Meet You at The Green? residency artist/designer/architect will be supported to research and further their practice within this context. They will be working alongside Meet You at The Green? commissioned Spanish architectural collective Todo Por La Praxis and Irish artists, Michelle Browne, Ríonach Ní Néill and Ed Devane who are all developing collaborative processes with intergenerational and local groups in Callan and surrounding region.

The CAPP CWU Residency offers:

• Artist fee of €3,000
• Subsistence allowance of €840
• Return travel costs to Callan to a maximum value of €300
• Research materials budget €500
• 24hr access to a large spacious studio space and research library
• Accommodation within a share house with locally based artists, arts workers and local organisations across various disciplines
• Introduction to local artists and various community groups and organisations
• Support and facilitation to engage in the locally based artistic and community networks

Application

To apply please submit a written proposal (two A4 pages max) including your ideas indicating the direction of your residency engagement or approach. Applicants are also asked to state why this residency is of interest to you and your anticipation of how it would contribute to your development as a collaborative artist/designer/architect.

Please send applications marked Meet You at The Green? by email to info@create-ireland.ie by 17:00 on December 9, 2016, including:

• a residency proposal (maximum of two A4 pages);
• a CV and/or Biography;
• a PDF with a maximum of 5 examples of recent projects, with images, relevant links, captions and short descriptions; and
• please indicate your preferred dates for your residency (2 months between February 1st to May 31st).

Eligibility

Applicants should currently live in one of the 6 countries of the CAPP-network, namely: England, Ireland, Finland, Germany, Hungary or Spain. Proficiency in the English language is essential.

Location & Context

Callan Workhouse Union (CWU) is a new developing shared space for art, design, research and community activities at wing of Callan Workhouse. Since 2013, artist and designer-led projects have been accumulating use and meaning for the buildings new life, bringing access for the public to this significant historic building in our town. CWU’s work extends to projects that examine the future of rural towns, housing, civic infrastructure and the commons. Callan is a small town in Co. Kilkenny that has established itself as a centre for arts practice. For more than 16 years of ongoing development, the impact of arts activities has been far reaching, with a particular focus on social and cultural impact on our rural town and hinterland. Callan is home to numerous arts organisations including KCAT Art & Study Centre, Monkeyshine Theatre Company, Fennelly’s, Equinox Theatre Company, Abhainn Rí Festival and Trasna Productions.

Meet You at The Green? is led by the curatorial team at CWU: Eilís Lavelle, Rosie Lynch and Orlaith Treacy and managed by Trasna Productions and funded through an Arts Council Participation Project Award. The residency is jointly funded through Arts Council Ireland and CAPP with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and managed by Create-Ireland.

Callan Workhouse Union is a developing facility and commissioning agency for visual art, design, architecture, research and community activities and projects.

Trasna Productions is a new organisation in Callan that facilitates ambitious cross-disciplinary ad collaborative arts projects with many stakeholders.

The Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme is supported by Creative Europe (Culture Sub-Programme Support for European Co-operation Projects Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. CAPP Partners: Create-Ireland (coordinating lead partner Dublin); Agora Collective, Berlin; hablarenarte, Madrid; Heart of Glass, St Helens; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück; Live Art Development Agency, London; Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest; M-Cult, Helsinki and Tate Liverpool.